Tiresome, isn't it?
Queue the "anyone-but-wigan" brigade and the convicts' decendents whinging about the refs & the weather & the state of the pitch & anything else we enginered to buy the match.
Great defence from us & some really nice plays. They probably turned up expecting a walk-over & then had no plan B, but you can only play what's in front of you.
Well done lads. Just another 3 bits of silverware to collect then

Oh dear.....

Must be a hell of a lot of haters crying in their beer tonight... To$$ers..

Genuine question, is this an attempt at a wind up or how you saw the game?

In particular The first half Wigan got right into Cronulla's faces, were rough and tough but didn't cross the line. They couldn't handle it and lost composure throwing cheap shot, elbows and even pulling hair. Wigan kept their coo and were looking very good at half time. I don't think Cronulla were being arrogant, it was a case of Wigan putting them off their game.

The second half Cronulla were more composed evening the game up, I also think Hicks was a bit more lenient in the second half and they got away with a bit more. Wigan had enough in the tank to hold on though with 20 to go I was feeling a bit worried.

They are not a free flowing team, if you have watched any NRL you will see they tend to take it up the middle and grind teams down. If you expected Cronulla to come over here and throw it to the flanks with gay abandon you are sadly mistaken, that's not how they play.

I think Cronulla were arrogant in that they clearly didn't do too much research and played right into your hands by going straight down the middle until they were in your 20, even the dumbest SL coach knows that to beat Wigan you test their edges and avoid a war of attrition in the middle (exactly what Wane wants)
I know Cronulla are usually quite boring but in the second half when behind they still didn't really throw the ball around, if you did that there would be Wane Out all over this board.

Its funny seeing some of your reactions to my post, I wasn't trolling, just making a point and even wanted you to win the game (really don't like Cronulla), so calm down a bit maybe

I just didn't think you had to play that well, you misplaced about 10 offloads and didn't make too many line breaks, but still won comfortably.

In fairness to Leedsnsouths fan I don't think they're far off the mark. I thought Cronulla did go a bit central and I didn't think we were at our best with the ball. We were simply unbelievable without the ball though and built our win on sheer will to go that extra yard for your teammates.

Well, Font of All Wisdom Wayne Bennett seemed to think he could run over the top of Wire too, and that didn't work too well for them.

As for Hicks, I thought the last try looked dubious in real time (so last say was with the VR anyway), but we'd already won by then, and frankly, Cronulla could have been pinged for a lot more than they were.

The NRL teams came over expecting to waltz it and they're going back to Oz with their ar$es smacked. More fool them, well done Super League!

The truth is that neither team was on fire attack-wise, which is most likely a symptom of it being early season. But Wigan were sterling in defence - and that did the trick.

Great to see us secure some silverware already in 2017, but the real pleasure re. this thread is thinking how the prat who started it must now feel (Ant by name, ant in terms of personality), and sing about the contribution from Mr Predictable over in Leeds. Our edges WERE tested in actual fact, particulary Tierney's wing in the first half - I know, because I was on that corner-flag and several times my heart was in my mouth at the action taking place just in front of me. But I don't totally blame our no. 1 visitor from over the Pennines for being frustrated. This year, thankfully, it was champagne all round for the British lads, and yet his own team were not only nowhere near it, but they look like they're a long way from being anywhere near it for quite some time.

Delighted you had such a wonderful afternoon then. Are you hoping for jelly along with the cake when your 3rd birthday arrives?

One time to put club loyalties to one side and stick up for our own. I was delighted that your team won on Saturday
and that they played so well

Oh dear, isn't hindsight a wonderful thing.

Dear Mods, make this a "sticky", leave it on the front page all year

Fair point but last year they did attack from deep occasionally with Bird and Barba (who granted is no longer there). It just felt like they assumed that all they had to do was get down your end and they could score, but your line defence rarely makes mistakes and when attacking Wigan you are much better going at their edges earlier.

BTW why do you care if other fans wanted you to win or not? I wanted you to win but that was mainly because SL have been embarrassed the last couple of years and I don't like Cronulla anyway. To be honest I don't think I will remember the scoreline past next weeks SL games.

I don't buy into the Sky promoted 'all together for SL' attitude, especially when half the England team plays in the NRL anyway.